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[Gr. a, priv., phileo, to love, and anthropos, man. The want of love to mankind. A'phis, n.; pl. Aph'idæ or APHIDES. ( Zool.) A gen. and family of homopterous insects, comprising the very numerous and obnoxious species of Plant - lice, Pucerons. and Vine-fritters, a tribe of insects analogous, in regard to the vegetable world, to the animal parasites of the order Anoplura, or lice. The antenne are of great length; the ocelli, three in number, form a large triangle; the eyes are entire, prominent, and semi-globose; the abdomen is short and convex, generally furnished with a tubercle on each side near the extremity. Some are winged, and some are wing'e , without distinction of sex; the legs are very long and slender, formed only for crawling The species reside in great societies upon almost every species of plant, of which they suck the young shoots, leaves, and stems, by the a istance of their proboscis, producing disease in the plant either by greatly weakening it, or by raising vesicles, or other all-like excrescences, in which whole generations of Aphides reside. In autumn, the mother A. deposits her eggs in some place she selects as suitable for her purpose. In winter the parents die, but the eggs remain unhurt, and in spring they are hatched. The young thus ushered into the world are all females, and, notwithstanding the absence of males, they are all fertile, and being viviparous at this season, soon bring forth a progeny of females like themselves. During the summer, 10 or 11 generations are thus produced succe ively from each female, every one so born being the mother of a fresh brood, so that at the end of the season the mother of the first brood may be the progenitor of 10,000 million millions! In autumn males are born. These impregnate the last generation, which are ovipa rous, and lay fecundated eggs, the young from which do not require fresh impregnation. The A. are remarkable for sec rating a sweet, viscid fluid, known by the name the rose, A. rosæ , is well known to every one familiar A'piary, n. [Lat. apiarius , from apis , a bee.] The with a garden. Apple and pear trees are subject to the place where bees are kept. same pest; the hop and the vine also are frequently in- Ap'ical, a . Relating to the apex or top. jured by their attacks. The larvæ of the occinella , or Ap'ices, AP'EXES. See APEX. numbers. The best metnod of destroying them, however, is to water the plants with an infusion of tobacco in water.